BONE, Homer Truett
(1883—1970)
Senate Years of Service: 1933-1944
Party: Democrat
BONE, Homer Truett, a Senator from Washington; born in Franklin, Johnson County,
Ind., January 25, 1883; attended the public schools; employed in the postal
service and in the accounting and credit department of a furniture company;
graduated from the Tacoma (Wash.) Law School in 1911; admitted to the bar the
same year and commenced practice in Tacoma, Wash.; special deputy prosecuting
attorney of Pierce County, Wash., 1912; corporation counsel of the port of
Tacoma, Wash., 1918-1932; member, State house of representatives 1923-1924;
unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in 1928 to the
Seventy-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1932; reelected in 1938 and served from March 4, 1933, until his resignation on
November 13, 1944; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-sixth through
Seventy-eighth Congresses); appointed a judge of the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit
1944-1956; resumed the practice of law in San Francisco and sat on the bench
occasionally until 1968; returned to Tacoma, Wash., where he died on March 11,
1970; cremated and ashes interred in Oakwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Contributed by A. Newell